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Cameroon: Climate Change Fight - Cameroon, Commonwealth For Coordinated Efforts
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
5 March 2008
Posted to the web 5 March 2008
Emmanuel Kendemeh
The 2008 Commonwealth week was launched in Cameroon yesterday with a call for the need to safeguard our planet.
Cameroon's Minister of External Relations, Henri Eyebe Ayissi yesterday, 04 March officially launched the activities of the 2008 Commonwealth week, with a call on all to fight climate change that has negative socio-economic consequences on mankind as well as repercussions on the future generations. In the presence of some members of government, heads of diplomatic missions, National Assembly officials, heads of some State institutions, and students, Eyebe Ayissi, justified the choice of the 2008 Commonwealth Day celebration theme, "The Environment: Our Future".
The Commonwealth Heads of Government during their meeting in Kampala, Uganda from 23 to 25 November 2007, with Cameroon's delegation led by Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni, had environmental protection as one of the priority points on the agenda. Concerned about the threat that climate change poses to human security and the economic wellbeing of citizens, the Commonwealth Heads of Government adopted a separate text known as the "Lake Victoria Climate Change Action Plan". In the document, the External Relations boss said, "they reaffirmed their continued commitment to the 1989 Langkwi Declaration on the environment that had earlier on examined the serious deterioration of the environment, its socio-economic consequences and its repercussions on the future generations". The choice of the Commonwealth Day commemoration theme is timely because, "of the worsening greenhouse effect, the depletion of the ozone layer, soil degradation leading at times to desertification and large-scale deforestation. These are phenomena that disrupt ecological equilibrium that support the development of life on earth", Eyebe Ayissi said.
President Paul Biya in demonstration of Cameroon's commitment in fighting climate change announced during the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly that a National Observatory on Climate Change would be created in the country. Cameroon like other countries of the world is experiencing the harmful effects of environmental degradation, noticeably in all socio-economic sectors. According to Eyebe Ayissi, "they manifest themselves in the reduction in rainfall, extended periods of drought, the outbreak of diseases related to water and high temperatures, the changes in seasons and increased rate of desertification".
All activities leading up to the 2008 Commonwealth Day on Monday, 10 March are tailored to deepen the culture of environmental protection in the population. This will be done while meditating on Cameroon's Minister of External Relations' call " that the protection of the environment which is the major challenge of the future is the concern of all of us and more so to the younger generation towards whom we have a responsibility to develop an eco-citizenship".
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